I thought about this anniversary several weeks ago, reluctant to believe it could be that long ago. I'm not that old, am I? As mind-bog...

I don't pay a lot of attention to business news. It bores me. But I keep hearing about something called Black Friday. Over 30 years ago ...

Number two of the eating holidays is over, with one more to go.* Thanksgiving is a nice day to be with family, have great food, but yesterda...

Friday night Sally and I were eating dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant when we were approached by a retired secretary, someone we...

My friend dropped me a note last night that said, "Great concert. They've still got it." She was referring to The Who, who pla...

One of our stops in San Francisco last week was the Columbarium, where ashes of the dead sit in windowed vaults. Over a century ago San Fran...

Today is Veteran's Day, also the 38th anniversary of the day I became a veteran. I was discharged on Veteran's Day, November 11, 196...

There are several artworks on the Albany Bulb constructed from landfill materials left behind. It's all striking in its originality, bu...

We just got back from our California trip, visiting friends near Berkeley, at their home in Albany. Dave and Karen took us for a walking tou...

Did you get through Halloween all right? We did. The trick or treating didn't start until 7:00 p.m., which is late for our local kids. W...

For some people Halloween is all year long. For people who like scary stories every issue of Weird Tales was the best of the best nearly ...

Halloween is coming up in a couple of days. What scares you? My friend Sherry told me once that what scared her more than anything was Walt ...

When I was a kid in the late '50s-early '60s I was just the right age for Famous Monsters Of Filmland magazine. It came out at a ti...

Hey there, Halloweenies...this is a special story I wrote some time ago. Hope you like it. El P. BROTHER GRIM’S BLOOD-RED RIDING HOOD A Hall...

I haven't laughed at a Dilbert strip in a long time, but I got a real big laugh out of this one. Click on the picture for full-size ima...

The ad says it, and quotes a reviewer: "There's hardly a body part that isn't mangled or lopped off, ground up or sliced throug...

Yesterday I showed you babies, today I show you babes. It's amazing what happens when you google "Halloween costumes." The th...

Today is the first day of annual teacher conferences, so all schools are closed. That means I get two days off.* Yippee. I spent part of t...

It's good to be Grandpa. A couple of years ago I wouldn't have said that, but now I think that way. It helps that I have a pair of g...

Every year a lot of people go to the emergency room of the nearest hospital complaining of pain in the chest. After some tests (expensive on...